These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

AbbVie cuts earnings forecast due to milestone payments

AbbVie Inc. executives lowered their outlook for the quarter and year in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Friday, which cited research and development expenses and milestone p...

CytomX shares surge more than 50% on Moderna partnership

CytomX Therapeutics Inc. CTMX, +7.19% shares soared more than 50% in the extended session Thursday after the small biotech company announced a partnership with Moderna Inc. MRNA, -2.17% CytomX shares ...

Buy AbbVie Stock. The Pharma Giant Is Still Worth Owning Even as Humira Fades.

Sometimes, a single worry grows so large that it obscures all the good things happening at the same time. That’s the case with the stock of pharma giant AbbVie whose blockbuster drug Humira faces pate...

It’s Rough Out There. Stick With Dividend Stocks to Stay Afloat.

Dividend stocks are poised to notch an impressive victory this year. The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend index is ahead 5.5%, cruising past the S&P 500 index, down 14.4% in total returns. Even more...

AbbVie Stock Slips as Sales Miss Expectations And Bigger Challenges Await.

Stock in AbbVie slipped after the drug company reported a higher profit than expected, while sales fell short. The revenue shortfall may have reminded investors of a challenge AbbVie (ticker: ABBV) fa...

Stocks Look Alluring for the Longer Term, say U.S. money managers

Patience in a volatile market like this year’s is a tall order. But it is the recipe for long-term success espoused by institutional investors in Barron’s latest Big Money poll. Big Money respondents ...

Buy Eli Lilly Stock. Its Obesity Drug Mounjaro Will Be a Hit, Analyst Says.

Text size Eli Lily said in August that initial demand for Mounjaro was strong. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Eli Lilly’s novel treatment for diabetes and obesity could become one of history’s bestselling dru...

Opinion: These 3 safe stocks yield more than 10-year Treasurys

After the volatility of early 2022 and the aggressive rate tightening by the Fed, there’s a return of chatter about the “Great Rotation” – that is, a broad move among investors to reduce exposure to g...

The Three ‘Kings’ of High Dividend Yield

Investors on the hunt for safe dividends should consider the Dividend Kings, a group of just 45 stocks that have increased their dividends for at least 50 consecutive years. Of the Dividend Kings, thr...

Weighed Down by Opioid Litigation, Endo International Files for Bankruptcy

Text size Dreamstime The generic drugmaker Endo International , which faces thousands of lawsuits related to its alleged role in the opioid crisis, filed for bankruptcy late Tuesday morning, while ann...

10 defensive stocks that can also provide you with growth and dividends over the long term

The S&P 500 Index has rallied 10% since June 22 from a deep decline, but there are different schools of thought about whether investors are out of the woods yet. Mark Hulbert has called the recent...

AbbVie Stock Slips After Earnings, Charge for Potential Opioid Deal

Text size AbbVie said it continues to expect adjusted diluted earnings of between $13.78 and $13.98 per share for the full fiscal year. Dreamstime The drugmaker AbbVie turned in quarterly earnings tha...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

Here’s how you can compound dividend stocks to double the S&P 500’s return

Companies announce dividend increases all the time, but here’s one that points to a simple investing strategy that can lower your risk and make you a lot of money over the years. Maybe it isn’t so exc...

The Days of Big Pharma Are Over. Big Biotech Is on Its Way.

W hen GlaxoSmithKline spins off its enormous division selling drugstore staples like Advil and Tums next month, it will represent more than just the latest shuffling of assets among corporate giants. ...

AbbVie’s Correction Appears to Be Over: Here’s Where the Stock Could Be Headed

AbbVie (ABBV)  , the research-based biopharmaceutical company that was spun off from Abbott Laboratories (ABT) in 2013, has made an impressive move higher the past nine years. Recently, ABBV pulled ba...

If There’s a Recession Coming, Not Even the Fed Could Stop It Now

The word recession is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Influential investor and philanthropist George Soros is talking about it in Davos. The Federal Reserve, on the day minutes are published, is cons...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new stakes in Paramount, Citigroup

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company on Monday revealed all the investment moves it made in the first quarter, when it spent more than $51 billion on stocks. But Buffett had already shared the bigge...

AbbVie Shares Drop Amid Missed Sales Expectations for Key Drugs

Text size AbbVie stock is up 15.4% so far this year. Courtesy of AbbVie In a quarterly earnings report out Friday, the drugmaker AbbVie cut its full-year earnings guidance, and a number of its key dru...

AbbVie, Gilead and 4 Other Defensive Healthcare Stocks With Big Dividend Yields

Text size An AbbVie bio safety hood Courtesy of AbbVie Deep into the second quarter of the year, stocks have yet to recover, and investors are seeking safety in defensive plays. One sector that’s bene...

These 6 ‘Dividend Aristocrats’ Have a Strong Pipeline for Cash. That’s a Plus.

Text size Exxon Mobil is among the companies whose yield on free cash flow indicates strong support for the payout’s resilience. Here, an Exxon refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dean Mouhtarop...

We Have a New AbbVie Price Target After Our Previous One Was Reached

AbbVie (ABBV) is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that was spun off from Abbott Laboratories (ABT) a number of years ago. Its blockbuster drug Humira brought in billions. We reviewed the cha...

Stocks for the Recession That May—or May Not—Be Coming

Text size Exelon stock offers a little bit of offense to go with its defense. Dreamstime The yield curve briefly inverted this past week—and that’s a recession signal that is either like Paul Revere’s...

Invest in AbbVie? I’ve Made My Decision

Kind of like that bunny that keeps on going… pharmaceutical firm AbbVie (ABBV) , long a Sarge fave, and now one of the oldest continuous long positions on my book, keeps on going… higher. ...

The 5 Highest-Yielding Dividend Kings

Cash is king, economic treasure and financial successful retirement conceptual idea with gold metal … [+] crown on pile of 100 dollar bills isolated on white background Getty Dividend Kings are ...

AT&T’s Dividend Cut Puts It in an Unenviable Club

A company cutting its dividend after a spinoff is uncommon, but not unprecedented. The longer-term outcomes can vary markedly. AT&T (ticker: T) joined this club on Tuesday, when it said it expects...

AbbVie’s stock gains on fourth-quarter earnings as it reports better-than-expected sales of Humira

An earlier version of this report referred to Humana in the headline, not Humira. It has been corrected. Shares of AbbVie Inc. ABBV, +0.08% gained 1.4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the comp...

Biotech Stocks Are Due to Bounce Back. This One Stands Out.

Text size Large-cap biotech will offer a smoother ride than small, and Vertex, in particular, looks attractive. Igor Akimov/Dreamstime.com Biotech stocks began the year in much the same way they ended...

These 12 ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ stocks have been the best income compounders over 5 years

Stock-market investors typically want to anticipate industry events or companies’ successes so they can make as much money as possible. But as a new year begins, a look back can be useful, especially ...